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Join us this year on one of our bike tours in Europe. This year, we will be going to Germany to ride The Moselle River Cycle Trail.

The tours focus on beautiful sights and scenery, sampling some of the best wine in Germany with lots of time for sightseeing. We’ll be staying in interesting (3/4 star with en suite) accommodations and eating great food.

We welcome solo travelers, so don’t hesitate to consider one of these rides just because you are traveling alone. Want to share a room? We’ll pair you up with someone else who is traveling by themselves.

We’ll gather and start in Trier, the oldest town in Germany. It has a history that dates back 2,000 years and has some impressive roman architecture. At Schweich, just a few miles downriver, the Moselle coils up into spectacular bows as it passes through the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The mineral-rich soil on the steep terraced slopes is key to the world-class wines that are produced here. A host of attractions are waiting to be discovered in the pretty little towns and wine villages that we’ll cycle through. The famous Roman wine ship in Neumagen-Dhron, for example, or the Roman wine presses of the Middle Moselle. Other highlights include Bernkastel-Kues, a medieval town where the hugely popular Bernkasteler Doctor wine is made, Traben-Trarbach with its art nouveau architecture and Kröv renowned for its distinctive half-timbered houses. The vineyards that produce the acclaimed Zeller Schwarze Katz wines then usher in a procession of Moselle castles: Marienburg and Burg Arras in the Zeller Land region, Burg Metternich and Cochem Castle in the Cochem holiday region, Burg Eltz perched on one of the Maifeld hills, Burg Pyrmont near Treis-Karden, Ehrenburg Castle and Burg Thurant on the Lower Mosel near Kobern-Gondorf are all worth a visit, but we can decide which one to see as some are a good hike up the hillside. Our Moselle Cycle Route ends at Deutsches Eck (German corner) in Koblenz where the Moselle and Rhine rivers converge.

Here is some information about the region from travel writer Rick Steves.

How We Ride

We started doing these kinds of rides in 2003. At the time, I called them group self-guided tours. Now I call it a very natural way to tour in Europe.

Traditional guided tours provide one or more bilingual guides, a van to help you along the way with anything from drinks and snacks to repairs and many other great amenities that all add to the cost of your tour. By eliminating some of these services, we save quite a bit of money while still experiencing the most exciting aspects of a European cycling tour. Our bikes are high quality hybrids, so mechanical problems are rare and we have a local emergency contact just in case.

On our tours, people come together to form a community where some people may speak a little of the local language, others are comfortable changing flat tires or making minor repairs, or map reading…..you get idea; everybody contributes in whatever way they can. It’s very much like the comfort of cycling with a group of friends. Only you are doing it in a grand new place.

We generally ride together, stopping to see interesting sights along the way and free to be spontaneous. The focus is on the experience rather than getting to the destination as quickly as possible. Really, our only deadline is to be at our hotel in time for dinner.

Fitness Level Expectations

On our tours, we ride together as a group and, therefore, need people to come adequately prepared. We design the rides keeping a minimum fitness level in mind. If people do not meet the fitness requirements and come on a tour, it means that the rest of the group might

spend much of their day waiting for people,

have less time to enjoy the sights and

have to bypass some wonderful attractions.

Not meeting the fitness level expectations is just not fair to the rest of the group

If you cannot keep up the recommended pace, we recommend that you rent an E-Bike, but you must still be comfortable with the speed and with coasting downhill at a same speed equal to what we do on flat ground.

Our minimum fitness level requires that you:

Be comfortable riding for several miles at 12 mph (on flat ground) without stopping.

Have been able to ride 25 miles at least two days in a row in the month before the tour.

Are able to ride up and down moderate hills coasting at the same speed as on flat ground.

Of course, the better condition you are in, the more fun you will have.

Cancellation Policy

No refund will be given if cancellation occurs less than 30 days prior to tour departure date.

Travel Insurance

Travel insurance is insurance that is intended to cover trip cancellation or interruption, medical expenses, lost luggage, transportation issue and other losses incurred while traveling, either internationally or within one’s own country.

Like most insurance, one rarely needs it. But we believe it is something that you should be aware of and consider purchasing just in case something happens before or during your trip. In case you want to know more about. If you want to know more about travel insurance, here is a fairly comprehensive article on the subject

Below are several reputable insurance companies we know of that you might want to review. We do not personally recommend any one company and there are many other companies out there to choose from.